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In the early morning hours of 15 February, 1900, ''Bat'' was one of several T.B.Ds. of the Devonport Flotilla damaged, losing the guard of her starboard propeller, when {{UK-Fairy|f=p}} dragged her anchor in Falmouth Harbour.  {{NMI|Monday, Feb 19, 1900; pg. 9; Issue 36069}}  Further damage would result during a full power trial on 21 February, when a steam accident in her engine room would require her to return to Plymouth on her port engines only and require her removal from the flotilla.  A cascading series of faults originating in a fracture at a bolt hole caused a crack fully two inches wide in a cylinder.{{NMI|Saturday, Feb 24, 1900; pg. 8; Issue 36074}}  She was paid off into the Dockyard Reserve on 8 March and her crew turned over to {{UK-Leven}}, which would replace her in the Instructional Flotilla.{{NMI|Friday, Mar 09, 1900; pg. 12; Issue 36085}}
 
In the early morning hours of 15 February, 1900, ''Bat'' was one of several T.B.Ds. of the Devonport Flotilla damaged, losing the guard of her starboard propeller, when {{UK-Fairy|f=p}} dragged her anchor in Falmouth Harbour.  {{NMI|Monday, Feb 19, 1900; pg. 9; Issue 36069}}  Further damage would result during a full power trial on 21 February, when a steam accident in her engine room would require her to return to Plymouth on her port engines only and require her removal from the flotilla.  A cascading series of faults originating in a fracture at a bolt hole caused a crack fully two inches wide in a cylinder.{{NMI|Saturday, Feb 24, 1900; pg. 8; Issue 36074}}  She was paid off into the Dockyard Reserve on 8 March and her crew turned over to {{UK-Leven}}, which would replace her in the Instructional Flotilla.{{NMI|Friday, Mar 09, 1900; pg. 12; Issue 36085}}
  
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In early March, 1901, ''Bat'' returned to Plymouth, escorting {{UK-Fairy|f=p}}, whose Lieutenant and Commander [[William Andrew Barkley|Barkley]], who had been injured by a fall down a hatch.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" ''The Times'' (London, England), Friday, Mar 01, 1901; pg. 11; Issue 36391.</ref>
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On 23 January, 1901, ''Bat'' led six other destroyers (plus {{UK-Leven}}, who sortied later) of her flotilla from Devonport to Kingstown.  They were to return to Devonport after two weeks.{{NMI|Thursday, Jan 24, 1901; pg. 5; Issue 36360}}
  
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In July 1913, she was part of the {{UK-DF|6}}, a patrol flotilla.{{NLJul13|p. 282}}
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In early March, 1901, ''Bat'' returned to Plymouth, escorting {{UK-Fairy|f=p}}, whose Lieutenant and Commander [[William Andrew Barkley|Barkley]] had been injured by a fall down a hatch.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" ''The Times'' (London, England), Friday, Mar 01, 1901; pg. 11; Issue 36391.</ref>
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She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1909]].{{ToL|The Naval Mobilization|Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9}}
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In March, 1910, she was part of the {{UK-DF|4}}, itself a component of the Third Division, Home Fleet.
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From at least April 12 to July 1913, she was part of the {{UK-DF|6}}, a patrol flotilla based at Portsmouth.  When war broke out, she was briefly part of the {{UK-DF|8}}, another partol flotilla.
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At some point in 1917 before June, she collided with a barge, resulting in a caution being issued to her captain, Lt. [[Arthur Hope Hignett]], R.N.R..<ref>Hignett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/185.|}} f. 186.</ref>
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In July 1917, she joined the {{UK-DF|7}} as part of its East Coast Convoy Flotilla.  She remained in this role until February 1919.
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Pennant Athelwold Iremonger Lloyd|nick=Pennant A. I. Lloyd|appt=14 January, 1900{{NLFeb00|p. 229}}|end=8 March, 1900|note=ship suffered engine damage and crew decamped to {{UK-Leven}} while repairs began}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Pennant Athelwold Iremonger Lloyd|nick=Pennant A. I. Lloyd|appt=14 January, 1900{{NLFeb00|p. 229}}|end=8 March, 1900|note=ship suffered engine damage and crew decamped to {{UK-Leven}} while repairs began}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Parkinson James|nick=Arthur P. James|appt=1901|end=16 May, 1901}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Parkinson James|nick=Arthur P. James|appt=1901|end=16 May, 1901}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes|nick=Roger J. B. Keyes|appt=1 May, 1901<ref>Keyes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 277.</ref>|end=5 January, 1902<ref>Keyes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 277.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes|nick=Roger J. B. Keyes|appt=1 May, 1901<ref>Keyes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 277.</ref>|end=5 January, 1902<ref>Keyes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 277.</ref>|note=including [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]?}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=2 September, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/141.}}  f. 206.</ref>|note=for passage to Mediterranean|end=late 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=2 September, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/141.}}  f. 206.</ref>|note=for passage to Mediterranean|end=late 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, Fourth Baronet|nick=Douglas E. R. Brownrigg|appt=15 January, 1903<ref>Brownrigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 492.</ref>|end=20 October, 1903<ref>Brownrigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 492.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, Fourth Baronet|nick=Douglas E. R. Brownrigg|appt=15 January, 1903<ref>Brownrigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 492.</ref>|end=20 October, 1903<ref>Brownrigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 492.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=23 March, 1907{{NLJan08|p. 282}}<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|end=13 May, 1908<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=23 March, 1907{{NLJan08|p. 282}}<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|end=13 May, 1908<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=13 May, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=6 August, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=13 May, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=6 August, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Randolph Divett|nick=Randolph Divett|appt=6 August, 1908<ref>Divett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/41.|}} f. 44.</ref>|end=6 October, 1908<ref>Divett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/41.|}} f. 44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=6 October, 1908<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|end=13 March, 1909<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=6 October, 1908<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|end=13 March, 1909<ref>Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Edmund Power Bickford|nick=John E. P. Bickford|appt=20 March, 1909{{NLJul09|p. 282}}|end=18 October, 1909}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Edmund Power Bickford|nick=John E. P. Bickford|appt=20 March, 1909{{NLJul09|p. 282}}|end=18 October, 1909}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Desmond Maxwell|nick=Desmond Maxwell|appt=3 February, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 392''i''}}|end=9 December, 1915<ref>Maxwell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/50/256.|D7604668}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Desmond Maxwell|nick=Desmond Maxwell|appt=3 February, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 392''i''}}|end=9 December, 1915<ref>Maxwell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/50/256.|D7604668}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Arthur Scott|nick=George A. Scott|appt=8 December, 1915<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/294.|D7605049}} f. 309.</ref>|end=2 April, 1916<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/294.|D7605049}} f. 309.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Arthur Scott|nick=George A. Scott|appt=8 December, 1915<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/294.|D7605049}} f. 309.</ref>|end=2 April, 1916<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/294.|D7605049}} f. 309.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Arthur Hope Hignett|nick=Arthur H. Hignett|appt=6 April, 1916{{NLAug17|p. 391''q''}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LCommRNR}}|name=Arthur Hope Hignett|nick=Arthur H. Hignett|appt=6 April, 1916<ref>Hignett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/185.|}}  f. 186.</ref>{{NLAug17|p. 391''q''}}|end=31 July, 1917<ref>Hignett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/185.|}}  f. 186.</ref>|note=relieved due to poor health}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Geoffrey Howard Barnish|nick=Geoffrey H. Barnish|appt=1 July, 1918|end=31 July, 1918}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Charles Frederick Brown|nick=Charles F. Brown|appt=26 August, 1917<ref>Brown Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/161.|}} f. 161.</ref>|end=12 November, 1917<ref>Brown Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/161.|}} f. 161.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LCommRNR}}|name=Francis Godfrey Spriddell|nick=Francis G. Spriddell|appt=25 July, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 738}}|ass=31 July, 1918|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Geoffrey Howard Barnish|nick=Geoffrey H. Barnish|appt=1 July, 1918<ref>Barnish Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 340/7/12.|}}  f. ?.</ref>|end=31 July, 1918<ref>Barnish Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 340/7/12.|}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LCommRNR}}|name=Francis Godfrey Spriddell|nick=Francis G. Spriddell|appt=25 July, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 738}}|ass=31 July, 1918|end=31 January, 1919<ref>Spriddell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/55/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>}}
 
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H.M.S. Bat (1896)
Pendant Number: P.97 (1914)
D.46 (Sep 1915)
D.09 (Jan 1918)
H.87 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 28 May, 1896[4]
Launched: 7 Oct, 1896[5]
Commissioned: Aug, 1897[6]
Sold:

H.M.S. Bat was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Service

Bat was leader of the Devonport Instructional Flotilla in mid-1899 under command of Alexander Ludovic Duff.[7]

In the early morning hours of 15 February, 1900, Bat was one of several T.B.Ds. of the Devonport Flotilla damaged, losing the guard of her starboard propeller, when H.M.S. Fairy dragged her anchor in Falmouth Harbour. [8] Further damage would result during a full power trial on 21 February, when a steam accident in her engine room would require her to return to Plymouth on her port engines only and require her removal from the flotilla. A cascading series of faults originating in a fracture at a bolt hole caused a crack fully two inches wide in a cylinder.[9] She was paid off into the Dockyard Reserve on 8 March and her crew turned over to Leven, which would replace her in the Instructional Flotilla.[10]

On 23 January, 1901, Bat led six other destroyers (plus Leven, who sortied later) of her flotilla from Devonport to Kingstown. They were to return to Devonport after two weeks.[11]

In early March, 1901, Bat returned to Plymouth, escorting H.M.S. Fairy, whose Lieutenant and Commander Barkley had been injured by a fall down a hatch.[12]

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.[13]

In March, 1910, she was part of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, itself a component of the Third Division, Home Fleet.

From at least April 12 to July 1913, she was part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla based at Portsmouth. When war broke out, she was briefly part of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, another partol flotilla.

At some point in 1917 before June, she collided with a barge, resulting in a caution being issued to her captain, Lt. Arthur Hope Hignett, R.N.R..[14]

In July 1917, she joined the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla as part of its East Coast Convoy Flotilla. She remained in this role until February 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Torpedoes

In October 1898, the ship became the first destroyer in the Royal Navy to receive a torpedo fitted for a gyroscope, drawn from the Portsmouth Depot, a single 18-in R.G.F. Mark IV Torpedo, S.L. type, manufactured by Whitehead.[66]

Her gyro hardware is still seemingly unique in that it is noted in her results of a flotilla exercise of July 1899, where she scored one hit in three shots. She is the only destroyer whose results are so noted.[67]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1899. pp. 62-3.
  8. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Feb 19, 1900; pg. 9; Issue 36069.
  9. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Feb 24, 1900; pg. 8; Issue 36074.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 09, 1900; pg. 12; Issue 36085.
  11. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jan 24, 1901; pg. 5; Issue 36360.
  12. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 01, 1901; pg. 11; Issue 36391.
  13. ↑ "The Naval Mobilization." The Times (London, England), Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9.
  14. ↑ Hignett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/185. f. 186.
  15. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 3 December, 1897. Issue 35377, col D, p. 5.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 228.
  17. ↑ Duff Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 80.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 229.
  19. ↑ Keyes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 277.
  20. ↑ Keyes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 277.
  21. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/141. f. 206.
  22. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  23. ↑ Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  24. ↑ Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  25. ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
  26. ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 283.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 282.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1908). p. 282.
  30. ↑ Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  31. ↑ Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  32. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  33. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  34. ↑ Divett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/41. f. 44.
  35. ↑ Divett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/41. f. 44.
  36. ↑ Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  37. ↑ Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 282.
  39. ↑ Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/172. f. 576.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 282.
  41. ↑ Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/172. f. 576.
  42. ↑ Leveson-Gower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/178. f. 182.
  43. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 282.
  44. ↑ Leveson-Gower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/178. f. 182.
  45. ↑ Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/148. f. 353.
  46. ↑ Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/148. f. 353.
  47. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  48. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 282.
  49. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  50. ↑ Bacchus Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/59. f. 462.
  51. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 282.
  52. ↑ Bacchus Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/59. f. 462.
  53. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392i.
  54. ↑ Maxwell Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/256. f. ?.
  55. ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/294. f. 309.
  56. ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/294. f. 309.
  57. ↑ Hignett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/185. f. 186.
  58. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 391q.
  59. ↑ Hignett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/185. f. 186.
  60. ↑ Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/161. f. 161.
  61. ↑ Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/161. f. 161.
  62. ↑ Barnish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 340/7/12. f. ?.
  63. ↑ Barnish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 340/7/12. f. ?.
  64. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 738.
  65. ↑ Spriddell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/55/55. f. 55.
  66. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1898. p. 42.
  67. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1899. p. 74.

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